Via Facebook Mick Foley reported he had been in a car accident this week: “TOUGH DAY FOR MICK! I have no idea how I am still walking around after this accident. I’m in the hospital now, and I’m sore from my knees to my neck, including a minor concussion.” Having just seen his Dark Side of the Ring episode about Hell in a Cell, I can’t imagine any concussion is minor for him, given the major ones he’s already had in his life. My best wishes to him for a full recovery.
On last night’s episode of NXT, Stephanie Vaquer vacated the North American Title to focus solely on being the NXT Women’s Champion. A new champion will be determined in a six woman ladder match at NXT Stand & Deliver. This ends her North American Title reign at 46 days, defeating Fallon Henley for it at NXT Vengeance Day.
Speaking of Vaquer her ex-boyfriend El Cuatrero is out of prison. He was arrested in March 2023 for attempted femicide, and he’s still facing those charges, but he’s been allowed out since the order of protection against him has now expired.
In this interview Bret Hart says he still watches modern pro wrestling: “I try to watch the pay-per-views. I find, in a lot of wrestlers, and I won’t name anybody, but I find the wrestlers are more actors pretending to be wrestlers today than actual wrestlers. I miss the ruggedness of the characters. Guys like Curt Hennig, myself, Dynamite Kid. That whole era of wrestlers that broke into the business in the late ’70s and early ’80s. We were from the Harley Race, Terry Funk generation, trying to copy them or mimic them. That’s why I think the ’90s was the best era of wrestling. When I watch some of that old ’90s wrestling, it was really good stuff. I find that today’s wrestling is a little bit more about promos and your character on TV and not so much your work rate. I like guys that throwback a little bit more to the work rate. Roman Reigns is a guy that tries really hard to earn the respect of my generation and be more realistic and more credible and believable, not so much an actor.”
The last episode of Collision did a 0.09 and 339,000 viewers. That’s down a bit from when they still had a March Madness lead-in, which got them a 0.22 and 584,000 the week before. (Wrestlenomics)
And speaking of ratings, Netflix announced last week’s Raw did 3.0 million viewers, a slight drop from 3.1 million for the week before that.
CMLL Lunes Clasico results are below. (FF)
- Hijo de Centella Roja & El Novato def. King Jaguar & Rey Apocalipsis.
- Astro & El Vigia def. Los Compadres del Diablo (El Perverso & Prayer).
- Black Tiger, Rayo Metalico & Blue Shark def. Tiger Boy, Valiente Jr. & Multy.
- Los Demonios Japoneses (Okumura & Yutani) def. Brillante Jr. & El Audaz.
- Difunto & Los Barbaros (El Elemental & El Terrible) def. Templario & La Fuerza Poblana (Stigma & Xelhua).
- Atlantis Jr. & Sky Team (Máscara Dorada & Neón) def. Los Guerreros Laguneros (Último Guerrero, Stuka Jr. & Gran Guerrero) via Disqualification.
Josh Alexander has filed a trademark for the term “Canadian Strong Style.” (FF)
John Cena says to expect the unexpected leading up to WrestleMania 41: “I’m going to say that there’s more unpredictability on the way. Here’s the stance I’m going to take on it, and I think hopefully I can put it in terms you can understand: We’re in the middle of a very riveting season of episodic television and you are kindly asking me to give you spoilers, and I can’t do that. What I did really enjoy about your question is you expressed the unpredictability of WWE programming, and I think that’s one strong point of the current state of WWE is its unpredictability in its programming.”
Here’s the newest episode of TNA Xplosion.
Ricky Saints is the new NXT North American champion.
Speaking of NXT here’s the current Stand & Deliver card for April 19th. (WWE)
- NXT Championship Match: Oba Femi vs. Trick Williams vs. Je’Von Evans
- NXT Women’s North American Championship Ladder Match: ZARIA vs. Kelani Jordan vs. 4 TBD
- NXT Women’s Championship Match: Stephanie Vaquer vs. TBA
Before that though there are a couple more Tuesday NXT cards, such as next week. (WWE)
- Oba Femi, Je’Von Evans & Trick Williams vs. Three Members of Dark State (which could be Dion Lennox, Osiris Griffin, Cutler James, or Saquon Shugars.)
- Jordynne Grace vs. Jaida Parker
- Wes Lee vs. Yoshiki Inamura
Mistico is still heading to Los Angeles for MLW Battle Riot VII, but whether he can work the event yet is unknown because he’s “day to day” on whether or not he’ll be cleared. (PWI)
